Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of more than 40 thick volumes of philosophy and theology so harmonious to Catholic teaching that he became known as "the Angelic Doctor." This year Protestants and Roman Catholics alike are marking the seventh centenary of Thomas' death with a sympathetic reassessment of his writings...
...choicest residential area in Bombay is Malabar Hill, where gleaming mansions and apartments house the city's elite. But the crown of the hill remains a jungle, thick with date palms and banyan trees, girded by two concentric walls that protect it from the encroachments of civilization. Inside the walls, amid the trees, are six low, stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas-the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds...
More Secrets. Even as Mariner 10 approached Mercury (it was only 3.3 million miles away at week's end) U.S. scientists were examining the 3,500 pictures of Venus transmitted to earth by the spacecraft in February. Among other things, the computer-clarified photographs showed that 1) the thick Venusian clouds move 60 times as fast as the rotational velocity of the planet; 2) the Venusian poles are ringed by bright, most likely cooler regions; and 3) a huge "eye"-a break in the thick cloud cover -seems to have opened in the equatorial region, probably because of circulation...
...team has uncovered many buildings and artifacts in the Turkish soil. In 1973 the expedition unearthed an impregnable fortress once admired by Alexander the Great. Diggers discovered its ten-foot thick walls by following a hunch that an inconspicuous stone might belong to the ancient structure...
Eastern League outlook calls for a tight race again this year. Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell and Brown as well as defending champion Harvard, all look to be in the thick of the battle come the middle...